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Skull Merchant's First Skin Proves this chapter is a sex grab
Honestly ######### is her skin. I already had my doubts with her base design that this chapter is gonna be a "sex sells" chapter, and then I open the game and see her first rare skin....
Surely I cannot be the only one so abysmally disappointed with how this game is turning out? There's so little horror anymore.
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Bone trader
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Players horny for men got daddy wesker.
No reason why players horny for women shouldn't get something too.
Tbh I'm surprised wesker hasn't had a topless cosmetic yet 🤣
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Wesker isn't an original character and isn't sexualised in DBD. This whole chapter screams "buy us cause we're hot" and not "buy us because we're fun and unique". You can have both, but this ain't it. Even Thalita and Renato's cosmetics are "please look at all the skin we're showing"
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Tbh they're kind of just reading the room. With that whole Daddy Myers, Daddy Wesker, the outrage when they altered Pyramid Head's behind, all the shirtless survivors (but in particular Vittorio), this community just laps it up. It was the girls turn sooner or later.
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Survivors: *gets loads of sexy teens, fabulous dresses, short shorts. Swim wear and Big chest men for many chapters*
Killers: *gets Skull merchant who is evil vain rich woman with a big dumptruck behind*
You: "Wow, bHVR is just doing a sex grab!"
Me:
We been playing the same game for years? no?
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I'd still wager this is a new level of blatant sexualisation that even stuff like the topless Vittorio didn't manage. That ridiculous walk doesn't help.
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She looks like she's auditioning for one of those "X's Next Too Model" shows. Practicing her catwalk walk
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The thing about other chapters is that they were still at the very least interesting. This whole release just screams "we realise what we're making is boring and uninspiring, so we're gonna overly sexualise everyone in this chapter so we have some hopes of making money"
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Game lacks fanservice content so that's a good thing
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Sex and horror have been a marketable combo for a long time. I can promise you a video game character showing some skin isn't the end of DBD. Also if this chapter were a "sex grab" they could've done way better than this. Not sure why this of all things moved you to make a thread like this.
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No amount of sex-appeal or fanservice could salvage the godawful gameplay on this new killer. She's downright awful and in need of an emergency rework.
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Tbh the community’s blatant horniness is what has caused this. The devs are just cashing in on it
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Interest is subjective, like Im not into Kpop. but I love throwing Knives at people. not all chapters have to appeal to each of us.
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Is using sex appeal inherently wrong, even when it makes sense, though?
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Dbd players when a woman is overly confident to the point of egotistical and it shows in how she walks and acts
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Dbd players when a women checks her phone instead of looking at my looping. :C
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People are upset the killer is hot? Has that not been what the community has been memeing for since this game came out?
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I just hope they tweak her so she's more fun to play. I don't mind her design, though a dark, creepy cyborg type person, or even monster would be infinitely cooler and probably far better received.
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didn't they say as much when they introduced the stream back when revealing hooked on you?
🤷🏻♂️ david was a big hit. kate was a big hit. jane was a big hit. vitorrio was a big hit.
spirit and huntress's beachwear probably sold tons.
if it's not for you then cool, but it's definitely for someone who's asking for it. and my guess is it's a LOT of someones.
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forgot felix. felix was a big hit.
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The problem is the degree in which they leaned into it.
It's not the same making a proper killer and giving them a sexy outfit than making a sexy woman with a sexy strut animation, a sexy mori animation (The whole sliding her hand is very clearly meant to be enticing), and a mask that looks like she's some sort of pop diva, with references to her being related to manga and stuff... like, it feels like they were leaning really hard into the visual appeal and mashed together every single thing that would make her sell visually, and then, and only then, they thought about her power and gameplay, kinda like an afterthought.
Fanservice isn't inherently bad, but this is not the way to go about it. The quality of the killer got a very obvious hit for the sake of making her as sellable as possible.
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I want my big breasted, blonde, ditsy babysitter Survivor. This is iconic in the horror genre. Nothing to do with sex, I just love that aesthetic and the personality that comes with it. * shrug *
I love seeing people being so selfish about what they want to see in a game. Like every single thing needs to appeal to them specifically or it's "what did they do to MY game??" It's not YOUR game, all the characters are meant to appeal to tons of different tastes. That's how you sell.
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You realize you can just talk about the stuff you actually don’t like about the chapter without bringing up an optional skin which.. isnt even out of place with all those other cosmetics like shirtless survs, beach huntress, spirit, spirits default, the face that all original female killers are barefooted one way or another, community literally asking for sexy outfits constantly..
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They intentionally made default skin so hideous, leaving only this 10$ somewhat pleasant to the eye. That's very dirty move you know.
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Sure, make her funnier to play. I would very much like to play against her more.
I'd gladly let her grab me a few times, if you know what I'm saying.
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Shirtless Vittorio, Shirtless David, Trickster's base design literally showing his abs, swimsuit cosmetics for the guys and girls, Spirit's default outfit....
Yeah, clearly showing Skully's buttcheeks is too far in the sex direction, right?
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Mommy Skull merchant?
She’s an awful killer but she doooo got a dumpy though. 👀
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I found this topic a lil funny, as it got me thinking.........This! is what I had to grow up with and was deemed sexy! LOL she even made a grunt moan when she walked into walls lol
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"sex grab"
I think that's something else entirely.
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Lol idk a LOT of the playerbase sexualise him. Besides there are plenty of revealing skins for other characters. Swimsuits, bare chests. I don't see why this chapter is any worse than normal.
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Chapter has hit 11th on steams bestsellers so whatever it is it seems to have worked.
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######### cares?
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Yea that new shirtless survivor is hot.
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With all the complaining I thought she'd be hotter
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Let's be honest here - this game is no longer scary for anyone. Might make it a bit more of an eye candy this way or the other way.
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It all boils down to 'sex good'
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I’m not. I just don’t like how she looks and her power is uninteresting to me. I would have preferred another Resident Evil Chapter with Alcina Dimitrescu as the killer with loads of sexy cosmetics.
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I remember when I asked for a crop top for Feng Min. The same prudery is found here as well.
The OP is just mad because the new skin might cause him to get distracted during the chase and run into a tree. Maybe it already happened, so he started this thread.
When men or women are self-confident and show what they have, that's the work of the devil.
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I'm really not mad about it being distracting lmao, it's just so clear that they forced the sexualisation of this chapter because everything else about it is so boring
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I didn't pay attention to the PTB so I got my first look at the survivors and the killer yesterday. And my reaction was like, "Whoa -- there's more to character design than sculpting someone's butt, you guys." I'm not thrilled that this is what the game seems to be turning into.
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its so wild that we've NEVER HAD ANOTHER KILLER THAT WAS CONVENTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE (trickster spirit wesker) and we've NEVER had skins that make characters sexy (huntress trickster spirit felix david renato vittorio ) and nobody has EVER played a character solely because they find them attractive, this is such a big issue with skull merchant alone guys
this is the dumbest complaint about the skull merchant. just dont buy the skin dude
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be fr his power involves choking you and pinning you to the wall
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says the person with the spirit pfp, the killer whos nearly nude for NO reason in her default, and was going to be completely nude but they thought it would be "too distracting"
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Precisely, I don't care. I don't mind her design personally and if it helps her sell well then bhvr will still have enough money to be able to throw more skins at us through rifts and allow us to "buy" original characters with iri shards. Also wasn't vittorio a total thirst trap as I remember it?
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hell, sex and horror are essentially inseperable-most slasher movies have sex in them for no reason but because it sells
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that trope is a failed attempt at mimicking laurie strode, whos whole thing was that she WASNT big breasted and ditsy, respectfullyi hope we never get that architype in dbd because it would just piss me off to no end
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There's the horror seeking players within the community still and there are the horny bunch. This is BHVR's second stab at pleasing the second group.
Hopefully back to horror next 👍
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People woefully missing the point of this issue, which is BHVR seemingly shifting away from the classic horror in Dead by Daylight that we're used to, and turning the game, lore and all, into an Apex Legends spin-off...
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Why not both? 😁
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Pic of the rare skin the thread is about?
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I agree, maybe not the exact details but I definitely want to play as characters evocative of the horror genre. I want every survivor to feel like they could have been plucked out of a horror film I haven't seen. If I dislike a survivor, it's usually because I don't think they fit that mold, like Jonah the genius CIA agent or Vittorio the 700-year-old wizard.
I actually like Thalita and Renato because I feel like they're the first survivors in a long while that match that feeling.
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